Chapter 1993

After Chief Qiao left, Yin Jun first called Klauti and asked him to help him deal with the transaction of Apple shares between himself and Chief Qiao.

Klauti had helped Yin Jun acquire 20% of Apple's shares before, and let him continue to handle it this time.

If you add the 15% of Apple's shares in the hands of Gang Leader Qiao, Yin Jun will own 35% of Apple's shares, theoretically the largest shareholder of Apple.

But Yin Jun will not participate in various decisions of Apple.

He even asked Klauti, as before, that the 15% shares should be distributed into more than a dozen accounts.

The specific procedures, Klauti will definitely be able to handle them properly.

The young man also mentioned this matter to Gang Leader Qiao. Gang Leader Qiao only needs to sell the shares to Yin Jun. He has no opinion on how Yin Jun should operate.

In this way, the 35% of the shares are spread out so much that it is impossible to see it.

For this part of the shares, Yin Jun also directly entrusted Goldman Sachs to exercise the shares on his behalf, and he will not take care of them himself.

On the one hand, the current Apple is not worthy of Yin Jun's fanfare to publicize and hold shares; on the other hand, Yin Jun is also waiting for the opportunity, until the day they can't hold on, he will take over the Apple company in a dignified way, and invite Qiao Gangzhu, who has fully realized return.

As for the price issue, Yin Jun decided to directly give 300 million US dollars in cash to Gangzhu Qiao, and help him pay transaction tax and stock income tax, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for him.

This little money is nothing to Yin Jun.

Because Yin Jun is about to snatch his industrial light and magic animation team, he will always be a little embarrassed.

After finishing the phone call, he asked Claudi to directly discuss with Gang Leader Qiao's personal financial advisor, and Yin Jun made the second call directly to George Lucas.

After seven o'clock in the evening, Yin Jun and George Lucas sat in an Italian restaurant.

George Lucas, who was devouring food, looked like he had just been released from prison, which made Yin Jun laugh.

"George, don't you feel that the people around you are looking at you?" Yin Jun smiled, "The dignified super director, the big boss of the film company, eats so rudely, they must be wondering if they have admitted the wrong person. "

"Whatever it is!" George Lucas took another sip of red wine, and then continued to attack the lamb chops, "I'm telling you, Jun, I've been living hell for this week. I've been three days I haven't had a good meal... This woman, I really can't afford to offend her!"

"What's wrong?" Yin Jun asked in surprise, "Is your new girlfriend a violent man?"

"It's not her." George Lucas sighed, "It's my ex-wife."

"How did you offend her?" Yin Jun smiled.

George Lucas's ex-wife is called Macaria, who used to be a photographer. The two were married for 14 years, and then announced their divorce the year before last.

Neither of them had children, but because George Lucas was very rich, Macaria had given up his job for him and concentrated on being his good wife, so the judge ordered George Lucas to pay a large amount of child support.

However, it is very interesting that after the two divorced, they still ate together from time to time, more like a pair of old friends.

"Isn't it because of child support?" George Lucas said, "I have a little investment problem here, and the stock market and funds can't be withdrawn for a while. In addition, making movies requires a lot of money, so I just wanted to tell her to delay taking the child support for these few months, but she turned against me and said that if I didn’t pay it on time, she would apply to the court to freeze my company.”

"Isn't she crazy? Why did she make it so big?" Yin Jun frowned.

George Lucas' company is working on two films with an investment of more than 50 million US dollars. If it is frozen, it will definitely not be able to start work in a month or two, and all the money will be wasted.

50 million US dollars in cash is definitely a big sum for George Lucas.

After all, not all the rich and tycoons in the United States have hundreds of millions of cash in their hands. Most of them put it in the stock market and funds.

If you sell stocks and redeem funds when the market is bad, it is obviously a very bad loss-making business, and no normal person is willing to do this.

In addition to the loss of cash, the production staff, actors, distribution companies, etc. involved in the film will all suffer losses. If this part is really counted, it will be at least tens of millions of dollars.

It's just because of George Lucas's face, maybe he just wants to make up for it in the end.

But if it was possible, George Lucas would certainly not want to do it. It would be too cheap to waste his face here.

And when the incident got to such an extent, he was already a famous person in Hollywood. Where would he put George Lucas's face?

"Who said it wasn't?" George Lucas lowered his voice, "Actually, she wanted to remarry me, but I don't love her anymore, it's impossible. So she took the opportunity to go crazy and try to force Let me know... These days, she calls me every day, and she doesn't even let me go at night, I'm about to collapse!"

"Then what are you going to do?" Yin Jun asked sympathetically.

"Look, if it really doesn't work, I'm going to sell some properties." George Lucas said with a frown.

"Sell the property?" Yin Jun looked in disbelief. "Is the news I heard recently true? I heard someone tell me that you want to sell Lucasfilm?"

"Fart! Who said that?" Lucas was furious, but asked in confusion, "Strange, who did you hear that from?"

"Don't care who said it, George, what exactly do you want to sell, let me hear it?" Yin Jun shook his hand and changed the subject.

No one mentioned it to Yin Jun in the first place, he just knew the result, so he purposely said this to arouse the topic.

George Lucas didn't hide it either, "I want to sell my industrial light and magic..."

"I'll buy it!" Yin Jun didn't wait for him to finish, and said directly, "How much is it, please set a price! I like Industrial Light and Magic very much!"

"Stop dreaming!" George Lucas thought it was funny, "Listen to me, okay! I'm not selling the whole Industrial Light and Magic, I'm selling the animation production team of Industrial Light and Magic... I think they The expenses are too high, and there are no good projects for them to do, so I want to cut this department and see if anyone is willing to take over... How about it, are you still interested?"

"Animation production team?" The interest on Yin Jun's face immediately decreased by half, "I have a Disney animation team in my hand, with more than five hundred people, which is much more than your small animation production team. It’s so much better.”

"If you say that, I don't agree." George Lucas said, "The animation production team I have trained is all talented, not worse than yours! Especially in terms of computers and special effects, they are definitely better than you. Your group of old man animators are much better! It's just that they haven't encountered good projects and haven't had the opportunity to display their talents!"

"Animation and special effects..."

Yin Jun pondered for a moment, before saying: "How much are you going to sell?"

"20 million US dollars, the same price." George Lucas said while eating.

20000000! ?

The boy almost scolded someone directly!

You are a small animation production team with only about 30 people, and you haven't made any achievements yet, how dare you sell it for 20 million US dollars?

When you sell it to the layman Qiao Gangzhu next year, it will only be 10 million US dollars.

Old Joe, old Joe, you are slaughtering your friend like a pig!

Looking at Yin Jun's angry eyes, George Lucas himself felt a little embarrassed, coughed lightly and said, "This is my quotation for the past few days, hehe, if you really buy it, it must not be this price."

"Tell me the real price!" Yin Jun said angrily, "George, your animation production team is just icing on the cake for me, not a gift in the snow. I am willing to buy it for the sake of my friends. Don't let the lion open its mouth!"

"Hmm... 15 million dollars?" George Lucas asked tentatively.

Yin Jun waved his hand directly, "Hurry up and eat, and go home after eating!"

"Haha, Jun, you really don't know how to negotiate business! How can you not bargain when you hear the price?" George Lucas hurriedly comforted Yin Jun, "Besides, my price is really not high. You don't know how pitiful I am. The alimony alone is worth several million dollars, forcing me to work hard to make money from filming, it's too miserable! Just help me, okay?"

He was really interested at this time.

Since Yin Jun mentioned it, he must be interested in buying it.

Otherwise, Yin Jun wouldn't have specially invited him to dinner today.

It's just that what Yin Jun wants is Lucasfilm, or Industrial Light & Magic, and now he only sells such a small working group, of course Yin Jun is not very interested.

But Yin Jun has always been very generous, maybe this animation production team can still get a high price from Yin Jun's side?

"I'll give you another chance to tell me the price you really want." Yin Jun shook his head, "George, if you keep asking the price indiscriminately, I really won't buy it."

"Okay!"

While George Lucas kept turning his eyes, he began to ponder.

He even put down the knife and fork, and couldn't stop thinking about it.

"Twelve million dollars!" George Lucas made a pitiful look, "Jun, let me tell you, they are really talented, if I hadn't encountered difficulties, I would really be reluctant..."

While showing reluctance to part, his eye sockets turned red.

Yin Jun was amused, it would be a waste if this guy didn't act.

Obviously only sold something worth 10 million US dollars, but sold it to myself for 12 million.

But the boy didn't care too much about him.

Sometimes when people get along with each other, suffering is a blessing.

If you care about every detail, it will not be easy to have good popularity.

George Lucas has a high status in Hollywood and has always been Yin Jun's good friend, so there is no need to make trouble for $2 million.

"I'm really scared of you!" The young man sighed, "If it was someone else, I would definitely only give 10 million at most...you are crying poor in front of me, what else can I do?"

"yeah!!"

George Lucas immediately cheered up, "Thank you, thank you, Jun, you are such a good man! Don't worry, this is a good business! You can't afford it!"

The boy smiled wryly on the surface and shrugged: "I hope it is as you said, then wish us a happy business?"

"good!"

George Lucas hurriedly raised his glass and touched Yin Jun's, "Thank you!"

On his fat face, the smile is like a flower.

But if he sees Pixar in full swing in the future, will he regret it?

Yin Jun suddenly looked forward to seeing his expression 30 years later.

At that time, the expression of this shrewd director and businessman must have been very interesting!

Therefore, taking advantage for a while does not mean that you can always take advantage of it.

Sometimes suffering a small loss will lead to great benefits in the future.